BNP planned to capture Ganabhaban like Sri Lanka, says Quader

FE Team | Published: July 29, 2024 00:29:53

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said BNP had a plot to capture 'Ganabhaban' like Sri Lanka, if the curfew had not been enforced on the night of July 19 to control the situation created centering the quota reform movement, report agencies.
"Your (BNP) brutality crossed all limits, even the barbarism of the (Pakistani) occupation forces. The fugitive culprit (Tarique Rahman) from London had a plan to capture the residence of the Prime Minister in 'Sri Lanka style' through mass upsurge," he said.
The AL general secretary said this at a programme to distribute food items among the distressed people at Awami League Dhaka district office at Tejgaon in the capital on Sunday.
Quader said BNP is now telling about forging a new platform along with anti-state and anti-development forces. It is normal that their (BNP) collaborators will respond to their call, he said, adding, "Their unity is the unity of arson terrorism . . . their unity is the unity of destruction of the country and its development."
He said masterminds of one-eleven like Dr Yunus has also joined with them. He is now opposing the country openly and urging the foreigners to interfere in the country's internal issues, the minister said, adding, even Dr Yunus is demanding holding a new election in his interview to mass media.
The AL general secretary said many foreigners from abroad, including organisations and teachers of universities, are making statements. The government knows who are coordinating them.
He urged those who gave the statements to see the destructive activities of BNP-Jamaat and their collaborators instead of making statements. They have torched 44 BRTC buses, toll plazas of elevated expressway and metro rail, he said.
Even, he said, the journalists also became victims.
He said Dr Yunus who didn't get respond from people during the one-eleven changeover and opposed the construction of Padma Bridge is in the field again. "He urged India to stop Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. But Sheikh Hasina is not the attacker ... she is the victim," Quader said.
He said the armed force did not fire a single bullet. The army came in field when the Premier decided to declare curfew, he said.
Quader said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is visiting the hospitals responding to the call of her conscience.
AL Presidium Members Dr Abdur Razzak and Advocate Kamrul Islam and Organising Secretary Mirza Azam, among others, were present at the programme while AL Dhaka district unit president Banzir Ahmed conducted it.